A common theme running here..it certainly isn’t intentional, but perhaps subliminally I have paid attention to the advice that women of ‘a certain age’ should wear white next to their face [women’s magazines used to be full of advice like that!]

Whether or not I paid attention, I have just bought some burgundy striped shirting fabric to make yet another shirt, seems I can’t stop, and was currently debating whether or not a completely burgundy stripe would look just too much and shouldn’t I add a white collar, when I suddenly realised that if I wasn’t very careful I would end up with a closet full of coloured shirts/blouses with white collars. But the urge is very compelling and I don’t know that I am strong enough to resist the siren call of lovely crisp white collars on striped shirts. I really can’t decide at the moment, so will just make a giant leap of faith and press ahead with an all striped shirt and see what it looks like…..a collar is easily changed after all.